With the boycott for Teslas seemingly going strong I was wondering if anyone has successfully removed the proprietary software off any of the models or removed it from the Tesla network?

Considering that the cameras send data to other cars on the network to be processed (using the customers power instead of the company’s) this seems better than just reselling to me.

  • mortalic@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Ok since no one here is giving actual information, there was a guy on Rich Rebuilds channel a few years ago that had done a lot of work in this space. I think it was this video: https://youtu.be/o-7b1waoj9Q

    Any way, at the time he had made a ton of progress on the hardware. I don’t have the mental energy right now to dig in to see how it’s gone, but feel free to do so and post back.

      • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
        241·
        4 days ago

        Not necessarily. Even modern ICE V8 engines share little with their predecessors from the 1950s outside of their basic designs, yet people figured these systems out and are able to tune them with their laptops using third party software to achieve performance you’d never see from an old carbed small block Chevy with mechanical ignition. This era could be a new frontier in performance modifications.

        • mortalic@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 days ago

          Maybe you don’t realize but one of the major issues with modern cars is firmware compatibility. Porsche is super egregious about it, others do it. But basically let’s say you take a gearbox out of a specific car because it’s wrecked. You need a laptop from a dealer to pair the replacement. They not only will not sell you the software or connector, they have legal protections that say they don’t have to.

        • DrownedRats@lemmy.world
          171·
          4 days ago

          That’s pretty cool honesty.

          However, I’m personally more concerned about the move away from cheap, off the shelf, replacement parts and simple, standardised designs, and more towards costly assemblies, highly integrated mechanical designs that are very complex to disassemble and repair, and deliberately anti-repair preactices that push consumers back towards manufacturers like how phones and laptops have become recently.

          I was talking to a coworker the other day about how even simple things like car headlights have become severely integrated and expensive.

          When an led in his headlight blew and took out half of the series strip and rendered the entire indicator on one side of his car entirely dead, the only replacement part you could get for it was a replacement headlight cluster, all lights included, for around £500. To replace the cluster meant borderline stripping the front end of the car including the radiator to access 5 screws holding it in place.

          On my old car from the mid 2000s, if an indicator light blew, I could fit a new one for £2.50 in under 10 mins. If the cluster smashed a brand new unit would set me back £25 now or around £50 back when it was new. The whole job could be completed though the open bonnet with only a screwdriver.

        • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
          5·
          3 days ago

          Invidious is an alternative to YouTube. It scrapes the content and presents it to you without trackers or googlerithms, or adverts.

          So obviously in a big cat-mouse game with Google over it working or not.

          Edit: it’s federated, I think - or at least instance based, so anyone* can set one up and stick it online.

          *anyone with servers and the hacker chops to be a network admin